Senior Data Engineer

Job Details

Job Location

Boston - Boston, MA

Description

JOB SUMMARY

As a Sr. Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to shape the Data Analytics Solutions utilized by our customers and drive the success of the development team. You will lead a team to ensure a seamless experience for our clients by coordinating with development and product teams, organizing team meetings, maintaining team accountability, and providing technical coaching on data products. You are a great fit if you are a driven multitasker, detail-oriented, active listener, and enjoy team-focused leadership.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Leadership & Communication

1. Lead and inspire Data product teams that are responsible for the end-to-end product development lifecycle (PDLC). This includes strategy, architecture, delivery, and maintenance.
2. Reinforce a strong product culture by balancing the needs of product management, design, engineering, and architecture to optimize the PDLC, and learning by experimentation.
3. Partner with peer groups for coordinated delivery on cross-product, cross-team efforts.
4. Identify and remove bottlenecks and team impediments.
5. Interact with internal and/or external leaders, including senior management.
6. Foster a culture of data-driven decision making, by working with stakeholders and product managers to refine product strategy feature effectiveness based on performance metrics.

Delivery and Execution

1. Partner with product management to establish and manage expectations around milestones and schedule, owning issues, risks, and mitigation plans.
2. Work with the team to de-risk objectives, estimate and size work, establish and maintain a burn up against milestones to hit high integrity commitments.
3. Optimize production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis, and root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability, security, and performance.
4. Ensure Agile discipline around releasing “thin slices” based on rigorous prioritization as understood through discovery, owning phased roll out and validation plans.
5. Establish engineering best practices (i.e., TDD, paired programming, clean code, etc.) for teams, provide coaching, drive continuous improvement, and ensure that teams are delivering high-quality solutions.

Architecture & Development

1. Provide architecture direction and guidance to the team as solutions are designed.
2. Perform and complete complex engineering tasks in tandem with the team.
3. Model code standards, testing standards, and engineering processes for the team as its leader and fellow engineer.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience designing, implementing, and managing Data Warehouse systems.
2. Experience designing systems and solutions in AWS with technologies such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Glue, Apache PySpark, and Apache Kafka or related technologies (GCP, Azure, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
3. Strong experience with Data Engineering, Modeling, and Data Management technologies.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Experience working with healthcare technology.
2. Experience working with PHI data and HIPAA standards.
3. Experience working as a Technical Product Owner.

Education & Experience Requirements

1. Minimum years of work experience: 8 years

• 6+ years of Data Warehouse and Data Engineering experience required.
• 2+ years of experience as a tech lead.
• Expert-level in Data Warehouse and pipelines technologies (Redshift, Glue, Apache Kafka, etc.) or related technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to understand business processes, set product direction and oversee successful PDLC.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Requirements

1. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
2. Frequent sitting in a stationary position at a desk.
3. Occasional standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, squatting, and climbing stairs.
4. Occasional twisting of body.
5. Occasional reaching by extending hands and arms in any direction.
6. Occasional lifting, pulling, or pushing.

What’s In It For You?

1. Medical, Dental and Vision Plans.
2. Voluntary Benefits.
3. HSA & FSA.
4. Fertility & Family Planning Benefits.
5. Paid Parental Leave.
6. Adoption Assistance Program.
7. Employee Resource Groups.
8. Flex PTO for Exempt Associates & up to 15 PTO days in first year of employment for non-exempt associates.
9. 11 Paid Holidays.
10. Corporate Wellness Program.
11. 401k Employer Match & Roth Option Available – immediate eligibility.